Dollhouses and dolls for little boys?

its perfectly ok,is us adults who cause all of this gender stuff,i mean really,if your kid is happy and healthy then thats all that matters......send him over i have a sink full of dishes!!!!!!

That actually sounds pretty normal. I know some dads who just lose it at the sight of seeing their son play with dolls and a doll house but what you describe seems absolutely normal. A fireman and a engineer those are motivational toys. Hell I'm 16 weeks pregnant now and I like the idea if I am having a boy or girl. I have never heard that type of spin on a doll house. It's very creative. I can use that as a tool to teaching my child to clean his/her room, etc.

Very informative thanks!

At 2 1/2 I wouldn't worry about it. My son has little people sets that he plays with and he's a year old. He will play with them for hours on end happily. It's not until kids enter preschool around 4 that they start to realize there are certain toys boys will gravitate to and that girls gravitate too as they start to understand about gender differences (even if it's just the boys line and girls line for the bathroom). For now, let him be a little boy and play. I would be more concerned if he were wanting to dress up to play ballerina than to play with dolls like you described in boy play and imagination.

My 4yo son has two cabbage patch dolls, boy dolls. One's name is Randolf Hufflepuff... and the other is Geico (LOL!)

He really wanted them, it was the only thing he wanted for Christmas. My husband had NO problem because he knows that for a boy to grow up to be a good dad he needs to practice just like girls do. I will point out that Randolf sleeps in the back of a Tonka dump truck.

My 6yo has never had an interest in dolls, although at our craft day he took a form and made a cloth doll. Then it was sacrificed in the backyard mud to the transformer gods. LOL!

My husband cringes when my son picks up a barbie. LOL I think that males have more of a hard time with this than women do. Although I would prefer that my son play with boy things rather than girls stuff because I fear that he may be made fun of by other fathers (I know this would be cruel but my husband would get hassled by his friends if my son played with dolls) or by other boys. My son likes to pretend his stuffed animals are babies and I think this is a great lesson for him. I think that toys today are very focused on gender and what their role is in life. I will walk into toys'r'us and look down the girls isle and the boys isle. In the girls section is kitchens, vacuums, brooms, etc. In the boys section is lawn mowers, guns, tools etc. I think that what you are doing is going to be beneficial to him at some point. I think you may want to consider the fact that he may be picked on for wanting to play with these things when he is in the 2nd grade. I would hate for him to be picked on just because he is interested in things other than guns and cars.

There's nothing wrong with a boy playing out the things he sees on a daily basis. It's how they learn about their world. My son is as rough as they come and wrestles with his father every day. But he also cuddles up to a doll with bright pink hair at night! Children don't have a particularly strong sense of sexual assignment when they are young. It's us adults who impose it on them at such an early age. I would just let your son work it out on his own for now. He'll play with whatever he wants and gravitate towards different toys at various stages of his life.